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Yunnan Travel Day 1
Arrive / Kunming
Upon arrival, be met & transferred to your hotel.

Yunnan Travel Day 2 (B, L, )
Kunming / Dali
Transfer via: MU5951 (0945/1015)
Transfer to Dali by air. Visit the old town, the Ancient Wall Gate, Three Pagodas and a small marble factory.

Three Pagodas:are located northwest of Dali at the foot Cangshan Mountains. With Qianxun Pagoda, completed in 876 during the Tang dynasty (618-907AD).

Yunnan Travel Day 3 (B, L, )
Dali / Lijiang
Full day visit of Xizhou Morning Market & the typical living house of Bai Minority. Visit Zhoucheng Village, and the belt-way of Erhai Lake. Drive to Lijiang.

Xizhou House:live Bai minority people. You will see the their typical traditions, dresses there.

Zhoucheng:the town where Bai minority people live. It is famous for its elaborate batik crafts.

Xinhua village, Zhoucheng village:for tie-dye workshop.

Yunnan Travel Day 4 (B, L, )
Lijiang tour
Full day visit the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Yak Meadow, Baisha Fresco, Yufeng Temple and Longquan Village.

The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain: The mountain has 13 peaks of which the highest is 18000 feet above sea level. It is a treasure of wild plants and rare animals.

The Baisha Mural: With the introduction of the Buddhism, people painted plenty of murals on the walls of temples in the Ming Dynasty.

The Yufeng Temple:built in the Qing Dynasty and famous for camillias in the temple.

The Longquan Village:In the village live the Naxi Minority people.

Yunnan Travel Day 5 (B, L, )
Lijiang tour
Full day visit of Black Dragon Pond Park, Museum of Dongba Culture and the old town of Lijiang.

The Black Dragon Pool:The park holds the Black Dragon Pool and got name because of it. The pool is listed in the Collections of Famous Pools of China because of its beauty.

Dongba Museum:sanctuary of the culture of Naxi ancient culture

The Lijiang ancient town:The town was built in the late song dynasty and the early Yuan dynasty and was listed by the UNESCO on the list of the world's major cultural heritages in 1997.

Yunnan Tour Day 6 (B, L, )
Lijiang / Kunming
Transfer via: CZ3449 Lijiang/Kunming (1655/1735)
Free time in the old town of Lijiang, transfer to Kunming in the late afternoon.

Yunnan Tour Day 7 (B, L, )
Kunming/Depart
Visit Stone Forest,Yi Minority Village. Transfer to airport for return evening flight.

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Hani and Akha in Yunnan China are considered to be of the Tibeto-Burman language family, closely related to the Yi (Lolo), also to the Lisu and Lahu in western Yunnan, Burma, and Thailand (Matisoff, 1978, 1983; Bradley, 1979). Yunnan has a larger number of Tibeto-Burman language related minority groups who in earlier centuries were characterised by the Han as 'Man' (barbarians) or Ch'iang (Sainson, 1904; Wiens, 1967). A distinction in Yunnan China was made between 'Wu-man' (black bone barbarians - non-sinicized or wild) and 'Pai-man' (white bone barbarians - sinicized). Important amongst these are the Naxi and Bayi, who live near the city of Dali in Yunnan China and Dali lake and were probably the dominant groups in the Nanchao Kingdom 750-1250 AD (Wiens, 1967; Backus, 1981). Hani in Yunnan China speak dialects of a language mutually intelligible with Akha. Chinese linguists have developed a Romanized script, which is in moderate use locally, though Chinese is the language used in school. Akha - excepting those who have become Christians in Yunnan China - use clan names as lineage and family names. They are less often used to identify sub-groups. These are numerous and mostly are not localised, even less so since the 'drifts' of the last 50 years in Yunnan China. Clan names are personal, genealogical, names, and not totemic or animal names as with the Lisu. Some of the older, more prestigious clan names, as we shall see later, go back 30-45 generations to a founding ancestor, others 15-25 generations or fewer as a result of fission in the clan. In some cases Akha may use what we might call 'super clan' names, referring to common ancestors of major, older clans of between 45-55 generations, in contradistinction to clans which branched off later but still in very early times. All Akha genealogical names go back to an apical ancestor and common founder of all Akha and Hani tribal groups in Yunnan China, Sm-io. For the older clans this is 55-60 generations ago.There are three main typologies in Yunnan China, or criteria for typologizing, used to distinguish major Akha sub-groups which have substantial differences in customary law and dialect. These are used rather promiscuously in the literature and in practice by various parties in Yunnan China. The first criterion is geographic region or even village of concentration, whether this is present-day or from a remembered past; for example Loimisa Akha (a mountain region in the Burmese Shan states), and Phami Akha and Bala Akha (villages in northern Thailand and Sipsongpanna blog

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